America Pauses to Honor King's Legacy

The Los Angeles Times has this, "Martin Luther King Jr. honored across U.S. (and in Google Doodle)."

And I wanted to give another shout out for my essay today at PJ Media: "How Progressive Race-Baiters Destroyed Civil Rights Progress in America."

And see also, Joel Kotkin, "Martin Luther King, Economic Equality and the 2012 Election." Kotkin notes that the administration's policies have lifted white collar trades at the expense of working class minority communities:

From its inception the Obama administration’s focus has been on the largely white information economy, notably boosting universities and the green-industrial complex based in places like Silicon Valley. The Obama team’s decision to surrender working class whites to appeal to what Democratic strategists call the “mass upper middle class” makes political sense but could lead to problems for an American working class that is itself increasingly minority.

An emphasis on green industries and strong across-the-board regulation often works against traditional industries like heavy manufacturing, warehousing and fossil fuel development that historically have employed many minorities. Opposing development of new petrochemical plants and such things as the XL Pipeline — opposed by many greens and their allies in the Obama Administration — could reduce new opportunities for minority workers, many of them unionized, particularly in the heavily African-American, and increasingly Latino, Gulf region.

I have never seen this administration's concerns for blacks go further than a second thought for a guaranteed voting constituency. Obama gives a lot of lectures to old line civil rights groups, and he hams it up for the cameras on the holidays, getting in all the right PR for brothas in the 'hood.

At Los Angeles Times, "Obama marks Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with call to service."

More at CSM, "Martin Luther King, Jr. and the decline in what younger generations know about him."